7A Welclose Street St Albans Hertfordshire Al3 4Qd

5/2024/0104HouseholderApproved

Approved on 22 April 2024

Council decision: DC3 Conditional Permission

Approximate location: the centre of the postcode, not the exact property.

Proposal

Proposed single storey outbuilding in the rear garden

Received: 19 January 2024
Council: St Albans City and District Council
Ward: Verulam

ReceivedReceived19 Jan
ValidatedValidated6 Feb
Consult.Consultation16 Mar
TargetTarget Date16 Mar
DecidedDecided22 Apr

Decided in 76 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application for an outbuilding at 7A Welclose Street St Albans Hertfordshire Al3 4Qd. St Albans has handled 3,966 applications of this type. This one was decided in 94 days, 5 weeks longer than St Albans's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 149 applications across Verulam. We hold 2,256 applications in total for the AL3 postcode area.

86% of full applications at St Albans City and District Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode: AL3 4QD
Application type: Householder
Scale / size: Small
Parish: Central St Albans

Planning application dates

Date validated: 6 February 2024
Consultation expiry: 16 March 2024
Consultation end: 16 March 2024
Target decision date: 16 March 2024
Application expires: 1 April 2024

Planning decision

Case officer: Ola Ope
Statutory period: 55 days

Publicity

Last advertised: 22 February 2024

Additional information

Documents: 7

Site constraints

Checking the site

2/3

Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

Conservation area: St Albans - Romeland and the Abbey Gateway
Listed building: Grade II: 9-17, Welclose StreetOn or next to this site
Article 4 direction: Verulam and Fishpool Street
Tree Preservation Order: TPO0052Protected tree on or next to this site · +1 more
Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)

Also checked, none recorded (20)

flood storage areas, green belt, scheduled monuments, World Heritage Sites, World Heritage Site buffer zones, registered parks and gardens, registered battlefields, Heritage at Risk entries, nutrient neutrality catchments, national parks, National Landscapes, SSSIs, Special Areas of Conservation, Special Protection Areas, Ramsar sites, ancient woodland, national nature reserves, local nature reserves, heritage coasts and brownfield registers.

A guide only, from official open data; it is not a planning search. Flood zones cover rivers and sea, not surface water.

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© Historic England 2026. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. The Historic England GIS Data contained in this material was obtained on 2026-11-03. The most publicly available up to date Historic England GIS Data can be obtained from HistoricEngland.org.uk.

Source: St Albans

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